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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Galaxy cluster MACS0416. Home to "Mothra", an extremely distant star that is magnified by a factor of at least 4,000 times due to gravitational lensing. 🔭 🧪

A field of galaxies on the black background of space. In the middle, stretching from left to right, is a collection of dozens of yellowish spiral and elliptical galaxies that form a foreground galaxy cluster. Among them are distorted linear features created when the light of a background galaxy is bent and magnified through gravitational lensing. At centre left, a particularly prominent example stretches vertically about three times the length of a nearby galaxy. It is outlined by a white box, and a lightly shaded wedge leads to an enlarged view at the bottom right. The linear feature is reddish and curves gently. It is studded with about a half dozen bright clumps. One such spot near the middle of the feature is labelled “Mothra"

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Roy Starks @roystarks.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Reminds me of South Park episode about a Handy man Plumber

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Science Explorist @scipexplorist.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The winner of the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest was this picture of Comet Leonard, called Disconnection Event. (Image credit Gherard Rhemann)

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Roy Starks @roystarks.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Just like a Bermuda Triangle

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

my favorite jwst images from 2024 🌌

A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.

Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

$A rectangular image with black vertical rectangles at the bottle left and top right to indicate missing data. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. The center of the image is filled with mostly blue gas. At the center, there is one particularly bright star, that has an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right of that is what looks a vertical eye-shaped crevice with a bright star at the center. The gas to the right of the crevice is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest sources in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of the Webb Telescope. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, K. Pontoppidan (NASA JPL) and J. Green (STScI)$

A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disc. It has a shining spot at the centre from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disc fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars.

Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The heart of our galaxy, shrouded in dense clouds of dust, reveals its tightly packed starfields only through the penetrating view of infrared light. Credit: NASA, ESA, Greg T. Bacon (STScI)

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Jason Clay Photo @jasonclayphoto.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! This is my interpretation of the Christmas Tree Nebula, located near the constellation Orion. Five hours of integration time. Gear: Skywatcher Esprit 100, ZWO AM5, ASI2600MM, ASIAir Plus, EAF, EFW Processing: Siril, Lightroom, PhotoShop #astrophotography #christmas #astro

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Science Explorist @scipexplorist.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Amazing! VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula... (Credit: ESO, J. Emerson, VISTA - Acknowledgment- Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A list of sorely missed Victorian-era slang… Got the morbs = temporary sadness Gigglemug = always smiling Scandal water = tea Bitch the pot = pour the tea Sauce-box = mouth Cupid’s kettle drums = breasts Dash my wig = OMG Tight as a boiled owl = drunk Poked up = embarrassed Not up to dick = unwell

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Some more slang used in Victorian times… Killing the canary = avoiding work Afternoonified = smart Mutton shunter = police That dab’s in quod = that ruffian’s in prison Chuckaboo = a close friend Muff = a silly man Gropusses = pockets Daddles = hands Bacon-faced blunderbuss = full-faced ignoramus

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Detailed view of Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars Cr: NASA

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